Museum''s Borders - On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well

List of contents

PRELUDE; 1. Border violence, democracy and museums; INTRODUCTION; 2. The border lens; THE BORDERS OF TRUTH; 3. From ethical borders to border force; 4. The museum’s ethical rebordering; THE BORDERS OF MEMORY; 5. The borders of historical truth; 6. Border armouries, walls and crossings; THE BORDERS OF CONTEMPORARY LIVING; 7. Contemporary museology; 8. Knowing and remembering well

About the author

Simon Knell is Professor of Contemporary Museology at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK.

Summary

The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Knell, Knell Simon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780367486488
• ISBN: 978-0-367-48648-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies